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Wedding Speech Humor

In this article we are going to talk about an aspect of making a wedding speech that often gets a lot of questions.

And all these questions relate in some way to the use of humor in wedding speeches.

Although this can be icy territory (we’ve all heard horror stories of completely inappropriate humor at a wedding, haven’t we?) We have prepared just a few tips that should keep you on the right track.

Of course, good humor in a wedding speech can give it the spark it needs to lift it from dreary to entertaining. A good wedding speech, in most cases, always includes a little humor at some point.

So with this in mind, let’s get to the advice:

Our first tip for wedding speech humor (and most comedy in general) is simply this:

Know the audience.

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If you are planning on cracking jokes in your wedding speech… you need to etch those three words on to your head. Is the crowd young or old? How will the audience react to any use of profanity or sexuality (if in doubt… strike it out).

Do you really want to be known as the guy who offended everybody?

The next tip is to avoid using any kind of inside joke. If it’s funny, then everyone needs to find it funny. And to find it funny, they need to understand it. So inside jokes between you and the groom aren’t going to work in your favor over the long run – you’ll just lose the audience.

Our next tip for injecting just a little bit of humor is to use a few easy one liners. You don’t need riotous laughter during your wedding speech. You’re not trying to be a comedian. Just something to liven things up a little. You don’t need to go off on wild tangents to find humor. Let it find you.

Something that often goes down well is to talk about a funny moment with the groom or the bride. Re live the moment and describe what happened (must be clean). Again, you need to make sure that people will get the humor. No inside jokes, and no "inside" funny stories.